The business activities of the new bank. The new bank was founded by the Ministry of Finance on 7 October 2008 and commenced operations on the basis of a decision by the FME on 9 October 2008. Originally the new bank was named New Landsbanki Íslands hf., but at a shareholders’ meeting held on 21 October 2008 a resolution was passed to change the name to NBI hf. The bank has nevertheless operated under the trade name of ‘Landsbankinn’. The bank's primary lines of business are corporate and retail banking, investment banking, asset management and leasing services.
The business activities of the new bank. Across each of the new bank’s business segments, the operations were very different to those domestic operations undertaken by the old bank before the collapse. A large proportion of the Commercial/Retail Banking department’s activities was devoted to developing schemes to benefit customers in need of some type of debt or payment adjustment, for which a special individual debt restructuring unit was formed. High interest rates and high pre-existing household debt meant that new lending was very low. Asset management activities (while stable in terms of volume due to the process of liquidating corporate bond funds, deleveraging of clients and marking down of assets) suffered due to the impact of the financial sector collapse on the Icelandic equity market and corporate bond markets. To adapt to the radically different landscape in Icelandic financial markets, the liquidation of what had been large mutual funds as well as